SV: [PEIRCE-L] The second law of thermodynamics

2014-06-29 Thread Søren Brier
Jerry As I understand it, this is where the concept of information in self-organizing systems has its relevance in modern physics . But for Peirce it would be Thirdness, but where the habits comes from evolutionary in a metaphysics that does not believe in Platonic ideas or even Aristotelian

SV: [PEIRCE-L] The second law of thermodynamics

2014-06-28 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Evgenii and list That fact is - as Schrödinger and Prigogine points out - that more and more complicated self-organized systems develop feeding on the general growth of entropy in the universe. These systems order more and more of their surroundings in order to support and prolong their